Ohio University Press: 522 books
Literatures of Liberation
Non-European Universalisms and Democratic Progress
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017
The postcolonial spread of democratic ideals such as freedom and equality has taken place all over the world despite the widespread cultural differences that would seem to inhibit such change. In her new book, Literatures of Liberation: *Non-European Universalisms and Democratic Progres**s, *Mukti Lakhi Mangharam questions...
Style and the Single Girl
How Modern Women Re-Dressed the Novel, 1922–1977
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Style and the Single Girl by Hope Howell Hodgkins reveals how four very different single-girl novelists employed modern modes to re-dress the traditional English marriage plot. In the first monograph to use fashion theory and history to trace the literary progress of British women in later modernity,...
by Talvikki Ansel
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2015
The poems in Talvikki Ansel’s Somewhere in Space work to locate us in this world and its mix of the made and natural, the cultivated and untamable. Faced with such mysteries and intricacies as the water-conducting tissue of trees, the sensory abilities of vultures, the lives of past writers (Edith...
Alliterative Proverbs in Medieval England
Language Choice and Literary Meaning
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
Medieval England’s specific political and linguistic history encompasses a great number of significant changes, some of the most disruptive of which were occasioned by the Norman Conquest. The alliterative proverb, with roots in Old English and continued vitality in Middle English, serves as a unique...
Post-Personal Romanticism
Democratic Terror, Prosthetic Poetics, and the Comedy of Modern Ethical Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2017
Post-Personal Romanticism: Democratic Terror, Prosthetic Poetics, and the Comedy of Modern Ethical Life by Bo Earle offers a broad recasting of Romantic lyric’s formal innovations in terms of Hegel’s historical ethics. These innovations attempt to come to terms with the Enlightenment’s paradoxical...
Narrative Theory
Core Concepts and Critical Debates
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2012
Narrative Theory: Core Concepts and Critical Debates addresses two frequently asked questions about narrative studies: “what is narrative theory?” and “how do different approaches to narrative relate to each other?” In engaging with these questions, the book demonstrates the diversity and...
Living Chronic
Agency and Expertise in the Rhetoric of Diabetes
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Diabetes, referred to as an epidemic for more than a decade, remains one of our most significant health issues in the twenty-first century. Because self-management is an important component of living with the disease, the biomedical concept of patient agency has long stressed notions of individual...
Divergent Trajectories
Interviews with Innovative Fiction Writers
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2017
*Divergent Trajectories: Interviews with Innovative Fiction Writers *by Flore Chevaillier examines the aesthetic, political, philosophical, and cultural dimensions of contemporary fiction through a series of interviews with some of today’s most cutting-edge fiction writers. New relationships between...
A Passion for Specificity
Confronting Inner Experience in Literature and Science
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2016
In an analytical yet increasingly intimate conversation, *A Passion for Specificity:*Confronting Inner Experience in Literature and Science investigates the differences between experience as conveyed in literature and experience as apprehended through scientific method. Can experiences be shared?...
Polonium in the Playhouse
The Manhattan Project's Secret Chemistry Work in Dayton, Ohio
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2017
At the height of the race to build an atomic bomb, an indoor tennis court in one of the Midwest’s most affluent residential neighborhoods became a secret Manhattan Project laboratory. Polonium in the Playhouse: The Manhattan Project's Secret Chemistry Work in Dayton, Ohio presents the intriguing...
Varro the Agronomist
Political Philosophy, Satire, and Agriculture in the Late Republic
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2015
Some six years after his narrow escape from proscription in 43 bce, Marcus Terentius Varro, the “most learned” of the Romans, wrote a technical treatise on farming in the form of a satirico-philosophical dialogue. Grant A. Nelsestuen argues that far from simply being just another encyclopedic...
Reality Bites
Rhetoric and the Circulation of Truth Claims in U.S. Political Culture
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2018
Fake news, alternative facts, post truth—terms all too familiar to anyone in U.S. political culture and concepts at the core of Dana L. Cloud’s new book, *Reality Bites, *which explores truth claims in contemporary political rhetoric in the face of widespread skepticism regarding the utility,...
by Juan J. Colomina-Almiñana
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Contemporary Advances in Theoretical and Applied Spanish Linguistic Variation by Juan J. Colomina-Almiñana, reframes the understanding of language variation and change as an intimate interplay between both linguistic features and social factors always occurring in unison in the same historical process. Its...
Good Words
Evangelicalism and the Victorian Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2019
This new study explores how evangelicalism played a vital role in the development of the Victorian novel. In contrast to those who see the evangelical movement as trivial to our histories of the novel and part of the losing side in religion’s battle with secularity, Good Words: Evangelicalism and...